Creationism Vs Evolutionism Essay Research Paper Evolutionism

Creationism Vs Evolutionism Essay, Research Paper

Evolutionism vs. Creationism

Two separate stories are the basis for how the World was created. The first theory is Evolution. Evolution states that we evolved through time and eventually turning into man. Creation states that God created us and that everything was created at once. The acceptance of both Evolution and Creation can end the controversy of how the World came about.

Evolution is the first of the two theories. Evolution is summed as being the doctrine of change. It roots back to a Latin term meaning unrolling. Evolution explains the belief that all living organisms have come from the evolving of earlier organisms. Evolution is around us in a lot of ways all the time. Charles Darwin put together the theory of Evolution, all though ideas of Evolution have been around for a long time.(Patent, 16-19)

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of Evolution to explain the origin, diversity, and complexity of life. Neo-Darwinism incorporates the

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Discoveries of modern science into Darwin s original theory while leaving the basic beliefs in tact.(Johnston, 78-79) Darwin proposed that individuals with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce. Darwin named this process natural selection. Darwin did not understand how or why variation existed. Today Scientists realize that variation arises through random changes called mutations to existing genes. Genes are the chemicals that determine the traits and characteristics of animals and plants. Every trait has one or more genes associated with it. Because of that, natural selection provides the animals and plants with the best genes. (Jones) Supporters of Neo-Darwinism believe that the natural selection operating upon random variation gave rise to all plants and animals. Natural Selection removes change, which makes the theory of Evolution possible. If Neo-Darwinism is correct then numerous small successive changes guided by natural selection gave rise to all animals and plants. Natural selection drives microevolution. Microevolution is defined as evolution involving small changes. Microevolution does not require the evolution of new structures or organs. Therefore, microevolution does not involve the creation of new genes. (Johnston, 79-80)

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The theory of Evolution has not been and probably will not be

discovered for a while. Evolution has taken place through a lot of certain

ways. Evolutionists do not believe that living organisms arise spontaneously in a sterile environment. However, they could have risen from inanimate matter long ago. The conditions of the Earth back then were very different, but the original Evolution process is different than the process trying to be duplicated by Scientists.(Lemonick) The length of time it took for the original process to take place today is impossible to duplicate. Also, if a form of live did originate it would have to compete with the millions of organisms that already exist. Because of this, it probably wouldn t survive. People are uncertain about Evolution but as people s knowledge grows the possibility of experimenting and finding out the truth of Evolution can develop. (Patent, 29-36)

Humans have some connections with the theory of Evolution. The face and the form of a man and gorilla show a common ancestral origin. The earliest primates were small creatures of the trees. From them developed monkeys with fairly large brains and dexterous hands. Over ten million years ago apes may have split into two lines. They were split into the forest apes and the Prairie prehumans. Prehumans split off early from other

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primates. Early men roamed the prairies, while apes kept to the forests and monkeys to the trees. (Lemonick, 53-59)

The idea of Evolution has itself been evolving long before Darwin, and is still changing today. There are many different modern day Evolution theories. First is the Atheistic Evolution, which is the explanation of the origin of species by only natural means. Atheism s weakness is that life had to have a starting point and this theory does not have one. Next is Deistic Evolution, which is the belief that the evolutionary processes are more or less controlled by a mind behind the universe. It also states that the creator is concerned only with events, not with individuals. This theory has some opposition because why would a creator make a vast universe and not have any interst in it. Theistic evolution is the belief that God directs the evolutionary process himself. This view is actually growing in approval in the modern day of age. It is being taught in some private schools. Many theistic evolutionists see no problem believing in both evolution and the Bible as long as God guides Evolution. The numerous biblical implications that the human descended from only a single pair of parents are where this

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theory faces problems. Another theory is Pantheistic Evolution. This is the concept that as nature evolves God also evolves. This means simply that

God is nature. Pantheistic Evolution s weakness is the violence in nature which would make God a killer. Another theory, Agnostic Evolution

is noncommittal in regard to the supernatural. Its main appeal is to the intellectuals. Its main weakness is that being noncommital it providesreal

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